Daryush Valizadeh (known by his Internet alias Roosh Vörek or Roosh V) is an American manosphere denizen, misogynist, rape advocate, pick-up artist, and sex tourist.[1] Roosh runs a number of clickbaity websites that make up some of the darkest corners of the manosphere, including his personal blog RooshV, the repugnant Return of Kings,[2] and the now-defunct[3] pro-Gamergate and anti-"SJW" Reaxxion.

He's one of those people who, when you think he can't possibly sink deeper into the scum-bucket, he gleefully proves you wrong. His evolution from greasy douche to wannabe guru to "Taliban-lite" is evidence of that.[4]

He was once referred to as "the most-hated man on the Internet",[5] and while that is stretching it (he's not nearly famous enough), he is quite possibly the creepiest.

On using Alinksy tactics to beat feminism, Roosh sure studied a lot of them. But he mostly follows the tactics of Mao Zedong.[6] Besides being, of course, a mass murdering dictator whose body count puts him in the league of the likes of Adolf Hitler, Mao was a notorious womanizer, spreader of sexual disease that he knew he had yet deliberately refused to treat, and unashamed predator of teenager girls, being as the dictator apparently "followed Chinese emperors in thinking sex with young women would keep him young and potent."[7] You can probably see why your modern misogynists would feel a bit of kinship.

He has also endorsed the Unabomber, because of course he did.[8] If he hates technology so much, why doesn't he fuck off the internet?

Since the original publication of his essay, "How to Stop Rape", Roosh argued that it was not serious; he proceeded to follow that up by stating:[10][11]

"If a woman got raped, that is a sad thing. It’s a bad thing. But whose fault is it? Is it the woman’s fault? No, I’m not saying that," Roosh said. "But a woman can do things to reduce the likelihood that she will get hurt. If I get a BMW car right now and I leave the key inside and park it in a bad area and it gets robbed, whose fault is that? Is it the thief's fault, or is it my fault for being a moron? [....] If the government wasn't completely holding the hand of adult women every step of the way and telling them that nothing you can do is wrong, maybe [women] would do a little bit of a better job not incapacitating themselves with alcohol and drugs and meeting random guys on the internet that they don't know and going to his house to watch Netflix.

In 2013, Roosh was being racist defending white heritage when he tweeted "How far lost is Western society if fat, ugly Indian cunt @nitashatiku has a platform to denounce a productive, intelligent white man?" In 2015, Roosh began promoting Kevin MacDonald's anti-Semitic books via an article entitled "The Damaging Effects Of Jewish Intellectualism And Activism On Western Culture".[12][13] Despite this, many neo-Nazis still view him with suspicion because he is of Armenian and Iranian descent, and therefore not really white, in their view.[13] Extra irony points to anyone that points out that the Aryans are from Iran...

Roosh had a piss-poor performance on the Dr. Oz show, where he was invited as the "leader of the international fat shaming movement".[15] Even redditors on /r/theredpill agreed that their hero was a closetbeta male had done badly.[16]

Montreal's mayor condemned his visit to Canada for the purposes of giving a talk because he gives talks, apparently. He personally began to attack Montrealer and feminist Aurelie Nix for her part in the cancellation of his event as well as the anti-rape-culture protest that later took place.[17] He and his followers sent death and rape threats to Nix as an attempt to pressure and scare her.[17] Nix pressed charges against Roosh and later published an account of her experiences as well as many threats she received on her blog A Woman on The Internet.[17][18]

“”I am in the middle of the fight of my life in Canada right now, all because I decided to hold 2 speeches, 2 men's events that are small, between 30 and 50 people. I've had, I've started in Montreal, where the entire establishment there came out against me, the media came out against me, uh, the mayor did, feminist organizations came out against me, and they frothed up these feminists on the ground, Social Justice Warriors, and they got my original venue cancelled, I didn't back down, I found another one, I successfully held the event, and what do they do? They hunt me down on the streets of Montreal like a dog, throw beers at me, and they wanted to do more, but thankfully I escaped and kept myself safe.

Roosh also had a drink thrown in his face by a woman who recognized him (and whom he was trying to pick-up) at a local bar;[20] two friends of the woman then also threw beers at Roosh,[21] and patrons of the bar finally chased him down the street. He claims to have filed a police report afterwards.[20]Paul Elam spoke in support of Roosh, saying that he would have been justified in considering that an act of attempted murder and retaliating with lethal force.[22]

“”[Canadians] are losing their minds over here, I have to hire bodyguards now. If you wanna ask why that is, look at me: do I look white to you? [...] My parents are from the Middle East. My parents are from the Middle East. My dad is from Iran. He is a Shiite Muslim man. I grew up with Muslim beliefs. where do you think all my views come from? Where do you think my ideas on patriarchy and masculinity come from? Where do you think my ideas that men should be strong and women should submit come from? Where do you think all that comes from? From thin air? No. It's from being by a conservative, honorable, respectful Muslim man. All the views that I present on sex, women, and men are basically a light version of Islam. Of how Islam does family values. [....] I'm basically introducing traditional Islamic values, traditional Islamic family into a Western audience, because these values are good for women and men. But I'm being attacked in Canada, so what does that tell you? That the Canadian establishment is vehemently Islamophobic. There is no other logical explanation. 'Cuz if you have an explanation why in Canada the entire establishment is coming out against me [...] but everywhere else is cool, then I'd like to hear it.

Roosh thinks that the evil Liberal Media conspiracy uses him as a scapegoat:[10][23]

Q: Why do you think people think of you as a rapist? A: They [the bosses of the journalists] need a target to get all the rage that the citizens have to put it on someone that doesn’t conflict with the agenda of your bosses and the ruling establishment. Roosh, go after him, it doesn’t matter if he gets hurt but we can’t go against our immigrant agenda. We can’t go against the feminist agenda. So we need to get the masses (the idiots who believe the stuff that you write) and put it on to something else. So you put it on me. I’m just a scapegoat. They are just using me.

On the bright side, he thinks he might be able to get some sex out of this:

A: But, I’m going to harness this. I’m going to harness all this coverage that you guys are giving me and convert it to money and women. That’s what I’m going to do. That’s the job that I have to do. I’m getting emails from a lot of girls right now and I plan (once this drama dies down if I can survive it) I may have to get in touch with them. That’s what you given me. You have made me one of the most famous men in the world.

Note not only how he "masterfully" puts money and women in the same category of "trade OBJECTS", but also in that, while giving them the same category, he prioritizes money over women, even if in the same category.

Roosh has self-published fourteen nausea-inducing ego-stroking pamphlets sex tourist 'advice books' (such as Bang Colombia: Textbook On How To Sleep With Colombian Women and Bang Lithuania: How To Sleep With Lithuanian Women In Lithuania and Don't Bang Denmark: How To Sleep With Danish Women In Denmark (If You Must)). These books have faced criticism from the majority of the countries that they focus on, and publications in Norway,[24]Lithuania,[25]Colombia[26]Denmark,[27]Poland,[28] and Iceland[29] seem to find him as revolting as we do. An Icelandic organization even labelled Bang Iceland a "rape guide."[30]

Most recently he has put out a book entitled Free Speech Isn't Free, which rather than cover his usual fare of sex-centric travel guide, consists of him complaining about people who don't agree with him and fearmongering about how the PC police are going to take away your right to be a hateful ass if you're a straight white man like him.

Many people have accused Roosh of rape based on the things he has written in his own books or blogs. In Bang Iceland, he says:

While walking to my place, I realized how drunk she was. In America, having sex with her would have been rape, since she couldn’t legally give her consent. It didn’t help matters that I was relatively sober, but I can’t say I cared or even hesitated. I won’t rationalize my actions, but having sex is what I do.[31]

On an account with another Icelandic woman, he says:

In the middle of the night I got another boner, put on a condom, and jammed it back in while she was half-asleep. I came and passed out again with the condom still on my dick….[31]

In Bang Poland, he says:

We moved to my bed. I got her down to her bra and panties, but she kept saying, “No, no.” I was so turned on by her beauty and petite figure that I told myself she’s not walking out my door without getting fucked. At that moment I accepted the idea of getting locked up in a Polish prison to make it happen.
I put on a condom, lubed up, and finally got her consent to put it in. … I put her on her stomach and went deep, pounding her pussy like a pedophile. She took it like a champ even though I imagine it must have felt like being fucked by a telescope. My orgasm was from another world.[31]

And in Bang Ukraine, he says:

I was fucking her from behind, getting to the end in the way I normally did, when all of a sudden she said, “Wait stop, I want to go back on top.” I refused and we argued. … She tried to squirm away while I was laying down my strokes so I had to use some muscle to prevent her from escaping. I was able to finish, but my orgasm was weak.[31]

In 30 Bangs, he says:

After dinner we went upstairs and I eased her onto my king-size bed. It took four hours of foreplay and at least thirty repetitions of “No, Roosh, no” until she allowed my penis to enter her vagina. No means no—until it means yes.[31]

The sex was painful for her. I was only the second guy she’d ever had sex with. … She whimpered like a wounded puppy dog the entire time, but I really wanted to have an orgasm, so I was “almost there” for about ten minutes. After sex she sobbed for a good while, talking about how she had sinned in the eyes of God, but in an hour she got horny again and we went at it once more.[31]

On February 14 2016, blogger and author S.Jane Gari revealed that a person had contacted her, claiming to be an Icelandic woman and accusing Roosh V of raping her.[32] This woman also told the blogger that she was in contact with two other women from Poland who had very similar stories.[33] It's unclear if the blogger has verified the identity of the accuser, or if it's just an anonymous person on the internet. Roosh subsequently denied the allegation, and his lawyer says that, in order to find out the identity of the accuser, he is willing to take legal measures to make Gari give up information. According to the lawyer, Roosh will, when the accuser is found, sue him or her for defamation.[34] On February 23rd, Roosh blogged that he's in mediation with Gari, and added a "Postscript: Further developments have transpired and will be shared soon"[35]

The Return of Kings blog itself is open for reader submissions. It is a great example of Poe's Law in action, as the blog has published several (more or less obvious) troll submissions, which then often end up endorsed and discussed by manosphere idiots luminaries in dead earnest.

The website is unabashedly homophobic[36][37] and transphobic[38][39], as well as pretty much useless for dating advice. Like most PUA blogs, it mostly functions as a place where men can openly berate women and be celebrated for it.

Since the election of Donald Trump (of whom Roosh greatly supported and admired), Return of Kings has begun turning more and more into the Daily Stormer as opposed to just a misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic swamp.

Although he admits that he hasn't seriously played any video games since 2000, Roosh decided to create a gaming website inspired by the ethical journalism anti-feminist/anti-social justice movement Gamergate (exploiting gamers for his own enrichment? sounds very familiar, and very ethical). Called Reaxxion, the site was intended as a place for and by heterosexual men to escape all the horrible SJW oppression found on other gaming websites. But to prove that it wasn't a haven for sexist bigots, the page gladly welcomed comments from "homosexuals or attractive women."[40] However, in one case someone submitted an old John Birch Society propaganda piece and replaced every instance of "John Birch Society" with "Gamergate" and "communist" with "SJW".[41]

After just 9 months of operation, Roosh announced he was shutting the website down because it didn't attract enough traffic to sustain itself financially.[42] It's almost as if a disorganised fringe movement united only by anger and bigotry, especially one within a community the creator hasn't been part of for donkey's years, is a terrible target audience for a website.

American women manages to be sexist, racist, and wrong all at once:[46]

American women typically have little to recommend them in their capacity as wives, due to their tendencies to cut their hair short and disrespect, cheat on, deprive of sex, and ultimately leave their husbands, as well as accuse their husbands of "abuse" because of minor transgressions in word or deed. American women lack the curvaceousness of Latinas (and usually do not even have the sense to be proud of such good curves as they have), and do not have as much of a reputation for hotness and passion in bed, or for delicious cooking. Their skin shows signs of aging more rapidly than Filipinas, and they lack the sweetness and kindness toward their husbands that Filipinas are known for, nor do they have the tenderness in bed that Filipinas are known for.

Branch swinging reminds males that females see them as nothing but temporary sex-givers:[47]

Branch swinging or vine swinging is when women let go of a relationship with one man after getting a firm grip on the next. Attractive women are rarely single, and tend to go directly from one man to the next because they have new guys lined up already. While they're with any given guy, they may be constantly watching for better options. Once the upgrade has been secured, the current man is disposable.

Femininity is docility (i.e. being teachable) and submissiveness. It is how women show love.

Feminists explains why feminists are good lays (but are going to destroy America!):[49]

Feminists are supporters of feminism. Like SJWs, they tend to use a great deal of profanity. Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson are an example of two feminist sluts who have sought to indoctrinate America. Four advantages of dating feminists is that they are easy, they are on birth control, they will pay for your date, and they will agree to degrading sex.

The wiki also features absolutely-necessary articles on shampoo[50] and female hair length,[51] the latter of which is considered one of the wiki's most developed articles.[52]

Due to ideological differences, in early July 2017, Roosh banned Kings Wiki's co-founder, Jean Valjean, from Roosh V Forum, and redirected the KingsWiki.com domain to ReturnOfKings.com. Valjean broke away from the Kings Media conglomerate, forking the project to KingsWiki.org.

Due to the generic nature of the site's name ("Kings Wiki") and focus ("masculinity" and "nationalism"), as well as the fact that the site logo was heavily derived from the Ludwig von Mises crest, it appeared unlikely that Roosh would be able to press any claims of infringement.